Tekαkαpimək Visitor Contact Station

Situated in the present and traditional homeland of the Penobscot Nation, Tekαkαpimək Visitor Contact Station is a stunning 7,900 square-foot building and 23-acre landscape atop Lookout Mountain in Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.

Tekαkαpimək — pronounced deh gah-gah bee mook, Penobscot for “as far as one can see” — arose from a partnership between a Wabanaki Advisory Board and Elliotsville Foundation, in consultation with National Park Service. Tekαkαpimək is a work of collaborative design and construction, intentionally imbued with Wabanaki knowledge.

Architectural and landscape designs resulted from a process between Elliotsville Foundation, representatives of the Mi’kmaq Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Penobscot Nation, Passamaquoddy Tribe; Saunders Architecture, Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture, WeShouldDoItAll, and National Park Service (NPS). A multitude of thoughts, cultural narratives, and ideas have formed a collective lens with Wabanaki sensibilities, helping orient the interior, landscape and exhibit design of the Contact Station, as epicenter of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.